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  • A Grand Opening Squandered

    The Battle for Petersburg: June 15-18, 1864

    by Sean Michael Chick ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    The Battle of Petersburg’s intense four-day clash marked a missed Union opportunity, prolonging the Civil War with dramatic consequences.May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. Combined losses for the two armies after the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor exceeded 80,000 killed, wounded, and captured. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grant's Left Hook

    The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, May 5–June 7, 1864

    by Sean Chick ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A history of the series of American Civil War battles fought at a town outside of Richmond, Virginia.Robert E. Lee feared the day the Union army would return up the James River and invest the Confederate capital of Richmond. In the spring of 1864, Ulysses Grant, looking for a way to weaken Lee, was about to exploit the Confederate commander's greatest fear and weakness. After two years of futile ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreams of Victory

    General P. G. T. Beauregard in the Civil War

    by Sean Michael Chick ...
    "Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy." — The NYMAS ReviewFew Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. He was a Catholic Creole in a society dominated by white Protestants, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Came Only to Die

    The Battle of Nashville, December 15–16, 1864

    by Sean Michael Chick ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    A concise history and analysis of the 1864 American Civil War battle that marked the end for the Army of Tennessee."A well-researched and informative read, Chick's study of the Nashville campaign is a must for anyone seeking to learn more about this often-overlooked battle, as well as those interested in the war in the Western Theatre and generalship in the Civil War."— The NYMAS ReviewThe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shiloh Campaign, 1862

    Battle for the Heartland

    by Sean Michael Chick ...
    Series Book 39 - Casemate Illustrated
    A comprehensive and fully illustrated account of the Shiloh Campaign, with over a hundred photographs and detailed maps.After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To facilitate this, Major General H. Halleck planned to combine Grant’s Army of West Tennessee with Buell’s Army of the Ohio. Meanwhile the newly formed ... Read more

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  • Unparalleled Horror

    The Battles of Jerusalem Plank Road and the Crater, June 19-July 31, 1864

    by Sean Michael Chick, John F. Schmutz ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    Grant presses a desperate push against Petersburg, mixing strategic maneuver with faltering hopes for victory.After the first attempt to storm Petersburg failed on June 15–18, 1864, Ulysses S. Grant decided to try again. War weariness grew in the North. Gold shot up in price. Radical Republicans schemed to replace Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats delayed their nominating convention, confident that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    by Sean Chick, Dr. Christian B. Keller, Dr. Ethan S. Rafuse, Dr. Thomas W. Cutrer, Dr. Stephen D. Engle, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Jennifer M. Murray, Craig L. Symonds, Timothy B. Smith, T. Michael Parrish, Brian Steel Wills, Alexander Mendoza, Cecily N. Zander ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

    by Sean Michael Chick ...
    The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Yorktown's Civil War Siege

    Drums Along the Warwick

    by John V. Quarstein, J. Michael Moore ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward Richmond. Blocking his path were Major General John B. Magruder's Warwick-Yorktown Line fortifications and the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. Despite outnumbering Magruder almost four to one, McClellan was tricked by Magruder's bluff of strength and halted his advance. ... Read more

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  • Friendly Fire in the Civil War

    More Than 100 True Stories of Comrade Killing Comrade

    by Webb Garrison ...
    More than 100 true stories of comrade killing comrade:defective ammunitionaccidental shootingsblinding smokedeliberate fire upon comrademistaken uniformsinexperienced troopsunknown passwordsOn May 2, 1863, Stonewall Jackson was on the verge of the greatest victory of his career. Shortly before 10 P.M. he rode through the woods near Chancellorsville, Virginia, to find where the Federals had ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Long and Bloody Task

    The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5–July 18, 1864

    by Stephen Davis ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    "Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise" ( The Civil War Monitor).Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union's western armies, eyed Atlanta covetously—the South's last great untouched prize. "Get into the interior of the enemy's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gettysburg

    The Last Invasion

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    **Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military HistoryAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year**The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier.Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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